Democratic Presidential Candidate

Obama Announces "Truth Squad" To Counter Clintons

MSNBC News | Domenico Montanaro | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The Obama campaign held a conference call to announce the South Carolina Truth Squad "to respond forcefully" to "the incredible distortions that are c...

Clinton, Edwards Hold Private Meetings After Debate

Washington Post's The Trail | Shailagh Murray | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The nasty spat between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama last night sure created fireworks, but after the debate attention turned to an offstage...

Obama Tells SC: Don't Take Polls For Granted

Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


After a combative debate, Barack Obama stopped by a debate watching party at "Broadway Louie's" sports bar in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Calling t...

Liveblog! Realizing MLK's Dream On A South Carolina Stage

John Neffinger, Glynnis MacNicol, and Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


John Neffinger, Glynnis MacNicol, and Rachel Sklar

Greetings and welcome to South Carolina, where these four candidates duked it out in the Dem debate. (The fourth? Bill Clinton, natch.)

Dems To Debate On MLK Day

CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The top three Democratic presidential candidates face off in a Monday night debate in South Carolina, with the hearts and minds of African-American vo...

Krugman Attacks Obama's Reagan Comments

NY Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Historical narratives matter. That's why conservatives are still writing books denouncing F.D.R. and the New Deal; they understand that the way Americ...

Clyburn: Clinton Attacks Will Toughen Obama

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


"I'm like everybody else, I'm torn," South Carolina Democrat Jim Clyburn says of his presidential choices in the primary coming up this Saturday.... ...

Democrats to Address King Day Rally

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


COLUMBIA, S.C. — Three of the Democrats seeking their party's presidential nomination speak today at a Martin Luther King Day rally at the South...

Obama Takes on Question of Faith

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


COLUMBIA, S.C. — Barack Obama is stepping up his effort to correct the misconception that he's a Muslim now that the presidential campaign has h...

Analysis: Momentum Shifts to Clinton

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


FLORISSANT, Mo. — Momentum moving her way, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton must change focus to the tough battle in South Carolina where rival B...

Obama Gives Away 'Questionable' Funds

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama is giving charity more than $40,000 in past political contributions linked to Chica...

Obama Camp: Nevada Caucuses "Discredited"

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


UPDATE: New releases from the Obama campaign: Statement from Barack Obama: "We're proud of the campaign we ran in Nevada. We came from over twenty-...

Key Dems Kennedy, Emanuel Tell Bill Clinton To Stop Obama Attacks

Newsweek | Jonathan Alter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Prominent Democrats are upset with the aggressive role that Bill Clinton is playing in the 2008 campaign, a role they believe is inappropriate for a f...

Robocall Trashes "Barack Hussein Obama"

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The Obama campaign has released a recording (mp3) it says came from a Nevadan's answering machine of an anonymous robocall that criticizes Obama for t...

Analysis: By Staying In Race, Edwards Is Helping Obama

Open Left | Chris Bowers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


s the arguments against Edwards begin to mount online, I want to point out something that should be obvious to Obama supporters, but which I have rare...

Clinton Hits Obama For Calling GOP The "Party Of Ideas"

New York Daily News | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Hillary Clinton just whacked Barack Obama after he had something complimentary to say about Republicans, in this case that they where the party of ide...

Obama Takes On Clinton In San Francisco Interview

San Francisco Chronicle | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Illinois Sen. Barack Obama launched a direct broadside Thursday at New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's claim that she is the experienced Democratic...

Clinton Nabs Las Vegas Sun Endorsement

Las Vegas Sun | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


One word can sum up George W. Bush's presidency: incompetence. For seven years this nation has been subjected to an administration riddled with abjec...

Clinton Asked About Obama As VP

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Hillary took the question at California State University in Northridge, and took a break from the sparring: "He is an extraordinary man," she said, a...

Progressive Leader Feingold Split Over Clinton, Obama

Post Crescent | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Sen. Russ Feingold has a plan. Getting ready to head back to Washington as Congress is about to resume, the Democratic senator from Wisconsin has comp...

Marc Cooper

Bill Clinton: Super Surrogate

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Boulder City, Nevada-- When it came to crunch time earlier this month during the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton called out a...

Reno Journal-Gazette Has Romney, Clinton Leading

Las Vegas Sun | Jon Ralston | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The RJ, ever-fearful that the Internet-illiterate newspaper will be scooped on its own information by someone who knows about new media, put out its r...

Marc Cooper

Nevada Unions Pump Up For Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Throughout Nevada, union activists are mobilized and deployed to support rival Democratic campaigns. In this video, we see Dale Jackson of the Service...

Sam Stein

Reagan Advisers See A Bit Of Their Former Boss In Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama found himself under fire on Thursday for having compared his candidacy to Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential run. "I don't want to presen...

Edwards Rips Obama Over Reagan Comparison

CBS News | Aaron Lewis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


John Edwards ripped Barack Obama for praising the way Ronald Reagan brought about change when he was President of the United States.... ..."He was op...